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Happy b’day, “Give Me the Night” — the iconic LP released by George Benson 45 yrs ago today “After a month in the studio,” he said, “I’d packed my bags when Quincy [Jones] called & said they had one more song for me. I wanted to go home but he insisted: “Man, it’s a good song. It won’t take long.”
People should scream bloody murder about RFK blocking vaccines for kids. I mean it. Mothers and fathers should get hysterical. I'd rarely advise this as a strategy. But, I think it's appropriate for this. What could be more clear and stark? It's not hard to explain to reporters.
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 12mo agoNEW: The FDA may yank Pfizer's under-5 Covid vaccine this fall. Pfizer has the only pediatric vaccines for all kids over six months, not just those with health conditions. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
KESSLER: “Why I left the Washington Post… like being on the Titanic, drifting aimlessly as it sank with not enough lifeboats…” An editor asked him: “How do we appeal more to Fox News viewers”? 🤔 The fact-checker’s reply: “We have to tell the truth.” glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
If you haven't already, get a PBS Passport membership. It's only $5 a month and you will be helping out your local PBS station. Tell your friends as well!!!
REMINDER: You can disable location services for Instagram and other social media apps on your phone in your phone's settings.
Column | Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move
A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.
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300,000 Black women have left the labor market in a three month period this year, and it's estimated that the unemployment rate for Black women is as high as ten percent but none of this is getting much traction. So, I wrote about it on my blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/f...
From “Support Black women” to crickets | Shay Stewart-Bouley
For the better part of a decade, it was common to see hashtags and think-pieces admonishing people to support Black women and to trust Black women, but in the last few years, as the post George Floyd ...
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Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.
Officials said Sergeant Buck William Aldridge, 42, is accused of using excessive force on arrestees on four separate occasions. The indictment also alleges Aldridge prepared multiple misleading reports to justify his use of force. www.news4jax.com/news/local/2...
Georgia deputy who shot, killed exonerated Florida man now faces federal charges for repeated use of excessive force
A Camden County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, who shot and killed a 53-year-old man during a traffic stop in 2023, has been indicted on federal civil rights violations, according to the United States Att...
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The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful'
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
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Unfortunately, this is where we are headed... shameful...🥺
When Kennedy cancels research on vaccine development, and established weather forecasting satellites are closed down for no good reason, it can only be concluded that this administration is deliberately trying to indirectly kill Americans. Americans actually voted for this stupidity? Ridiculous!
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Home Depot and Lowe's share data from hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras with law enforcement
Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops
Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.
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in retrospect i guess it was inevitable there would be attempts to frame any pushback against tech as the same "annoying hippie lib busybody" stereotype the left has been getting hit with for decades
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12mo agoMeet the AI vegans | Arwa Mahdawi
60 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination in elections. My latest @npr.org story is about the new threats facing the law’s remaining protections for minority voters
60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.
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Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
Laura Weiss@lauralew105.bsky.social · last yr.WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!! “Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...
Just to be clear, mRNA vaccines may cure pancreatic cancer. It is an amazing advancement in medicine. letswinpc.org/research/mrn...
mRNA Vaccine Shows Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group
Dr. Vinod Balachandran reports notable antitumor response in about half to the patients in his mRNA vaccine clinical trial.
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Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 12mo agoSecretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has called off nearly $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at advancing mRNA vaccine development. This technology, first deployed during the Covid19 pandemic, allows vaccines to be produced rapidly and adapted as viruses evolve. His brain worms are getting worse!
“tell her it is the world that must change instead of demanding that she must change herself.” -Nikita Gill #quotes #poetry #poem #poems #booksky #whatimreading #nikitagill
Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.
Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians
“I like to call it 'structured' racism.”
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Senator Mike Gianaris (@sengianaris.bsky.social) and I worked together to deliver for our public transit system, including historic new funding for better service and a groundbreaking fare free bus pilot. That's why I didn't mind lending him our video team to deliver this important message:
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
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Customized pricing – where each customer receives a different price for the same product – is a holy grail for businesses because it boosts profits. With customized pricing, free-spending people pay more while the price-sensitive pay less. (via @us.theconversation.com)
Personalized pricing has spread across many industries. Here's how consumers can avoid it
As AI powers individualized pricing across industries, businesses are increasingly charging based on what they think you can pay.
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